Mare of Easttown
On: Disney+Hotstar
Creator-writer: Brad Ingelsby
Cast: Kate Winslet, Evan Peters
Rating: ****

Imagine a one-book wonder, in his 50s — an author with his best/only work behind him. He’s settled, therefore, in a teaching job at a local university. Maybe Suketu Mehta (Maximum City)? But Mehta teaches, if I’m not mistaken, at New York University, which is as posh as it gets.

On this show, with Guy Pearce playing that fictional author Richard Ryan, we’re looking at a sleepy town called Easttown — I googled, it exists. He hooks up one random night, with a woman he meets at a bar, Mare (Kate Winslet), a cop, no less.